The State Education Department yesterday released construction guidelines for "green schools" to encourage districts to use environmentally friendly and energy-efficient designs to build and renovate their schools.
The method employed by the Egyptians earned them the name "rope pullers" in Greece, apparently because they employed a rope for laying out their construction guidelines.
Though Boulder aims to achieve zero-waste construction with this program, the city has been criticized for creating a unique set of rules instead of simply following the construction guidelines of the nonprofit U.S. Green Building Council.
Nan Jenks-Jay, the college's director of environmental affairs, says the effort fits in with Middlebury's commitment to environmental soundness, laid out in construction guidelines drawn up in 1999.
A year later, he became chief architect of the municipal settlement office, and began drawing up an Allotment Garden and Settlement Zoning Plan as well as developing design and construction guidelines for the settlement housing.
All indicators were transformed into questionnaire items in German following general construction guidelines [28, 46].
This chapter discusses the construction guidelines for installation of a photovoltaic (PV) system.
Finally, suggested design and construction guidelines are given in the conclusion of this paper.
These studies resulted in general construction guidelines, which contain a standardized analysis of available timber specimen as initial working step.
This information is essential, however, in order to validate sophisticated numerical treatments, as well as to calibrate practical design and construction guidelines and is therefore much-needed.
